A little OT but a few SLisms that either creep into RL or have great meaning in SL but not as much elsewhere.
Poof/poofed = Always cracks me up when someone announces that they are quitting by announcing it in chat.
/me did xxx = I've done this too many times to count in emails lately :-/
Can you imagine a noob walking up to two av's having a conversation about SL problems?
1: "OMG, when I logged this morning I was ruthed and everyone else was grey-goo'd, and then when I tried to rez a prim nothing happened!"
2: "Oh yeah? Well I teleplotzed AND had shoebooty just a minute ago."
1: "Wait, are you shebanging it today?"
2: "Nope, just got lindened by the newest update."
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Viridian Ducatillon
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07-12-2007 06:39
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Maggie McArdle
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07-12-2007 06:44
YES!! I find myself looking at real life objects and thinking, hmmm, I wonder if that's mod and transfer!! Also this morning I woke up wanting to wear some jeans I own. Only problem is I have them in SL, not RL!! Gonna have to get the sewing machine out I think!! Off topic I know, but do we all do this? yes, i posted a while back on a blog regarding a how do you know you are inworld to much my reply: my best friend invited me out to lunch and i agreed, then i waited for the tp, i also asked a salesperson at sears how many prims was the bed i wanted to buy... imagine the look i got  oh umm [koffs koffs] "broadly offensive" takes on new meaning in SL. _____________________
There's, uh, probably a lot of things you didn't know about lindens. Another, another interesting, uh, lindenism, uh, there are only three jobs available to a linden. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps.You can bake cookies in a tree. But the third job, some call it, uh, "the show" or "the big dance," it's the profession that every linden aspires to.
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Maggie McArdle
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07-12-2007 06:46
Once I walked around for 30mins. in mouselook when someone sent me an IM saying: "You have a great looking butt, except for the left shoe and hair sticking out..." Mandy C lMBO...wait...that was my shoe... >_<!!! _____________________
There's, uh, probably a lot of things you didn't know about lindens. Another, another interesting, uh, lindenism, uh, there are only three jobs available to a linden. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps.You can bake cookies in a tree. But the third job, some call it, uh, "the show" or "the big dance," it's the profession that every linden aspires to.
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Marianne McCann
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07-12-2007 07:12
everyone else was grey-goo'd Inigo Montoya think that word dun mean what you tink it means.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo Used in SL with self-replicating attacks like the ones we had all the time at the end of last year. yes, i posted a while back on a blog regarding a how do you know you are inworld to much my reply: my best friend invited me out to lunch and i agreed, then i waited for the tp, i also asked a salesperson at sears how many prims was the bed i wanted to buy... imagine the look i got Oh ya. My in-world sis an I, when we talk on the phone, keep waiting for TPs FROM each other, or try to map ourselves, or all sorts of stuff. I hope that's fixed in RL 1.19. My sis also refers to the issue of pants losing their shape and molding to the avatar's body as "Shakespeare's pants," and there are also tons of terms that come out of my SL family. Gigglebytes, for one. Other references to bad typos, that sorta ting. Mari _____________________
 "There's nothing objectionable nor illegal in having a child-like avatar in itself and we must assume innocence until proof of the contrary." - Lewis PR Linden "If you find children offensive, you're gonna have trouble in this world  " - Prospero Linden |
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Mandy Carbenell
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07-12-2007 07:15
lMBO...wait...that was my shoe... >_<!!! O_O Mandy C _____________________
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Brenda Connolly
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07-12-2007 07:37
lMBO...wait...that was my shoe... >_<!!! I find all this talk about shoe abuse Broadly Offensive. Shoes should be respected and admired. _____________________
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Mickey McLuhan
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07-12-2007 07:39
one that hasn't taken off, but should, from the furry community (invented by accident by my dear friend)
Taurd: Someone who buys a centaur kit, then complains to the creator because it's not the same colour, not as big as they wanted, not as small as they wanted, it's not full permissions ("I wanted to modify it and give it to my friend and keep one for myself... no, why should I have to buy two? You're just greedy!" , it's not feline enough, it's not equine enough, it doesn't (and I shit you not on this) look like the picture of it on the vendor... no, seriously. It doesn't look like the snapshot OF THE PRODUCT... um... riiiight...anyway, you get the picture. Etcetera etcetera. It's pretty specific, but should be applied to... well... never mind *grin* _____________________
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Maggie McArdle
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07-12-2007 08:17
I find all this talk about shoe abuse Broadly Offensive. Shoes should be respected and admired. i do admire teh shoes, and teh boots ...THEY seem to admire teh butts  _____________________
There's, uh, probably a lot of things you didn't know about lindens. Another, another interesting, uh, lindenism, uh, there are only three jobs available to a linden. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps.You can bake cookies in a tree. But the third job, some call it, uh, "the show" or "the big dance," it's the profession that every linden aspires to.
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Colette Meiji
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07-12-2007 08:27
furryphobe - people who are afraid of furries.
gorophobe - people who are afraid of Goreans. |
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Brenda Connolly
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07-12-2007 08:33
furryphobe - people who are afraid of furries. gorophobe - people who are afraid of Goreans. I like SLirgins _____________________
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Colette Meiji
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07-12-2007 08:41
I like SLirgins you would, you coruptor of innocents, you! |
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Ann Launay
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07-12-2007 08:47
Of course, then instead of having discarded boxes littering the SL streets, we'll have hair and shoes laying around. That already happens, although it's usually just one shoe for some reason... _____________________
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I am bumping you to an 8.5 on the Official Trout Measuring Instrument of Sluttiness. You are an enigma - on the one hand a sweet, gentle, intelligent woman who we would like to wrap up in our arms and protect, and on the other, a temptress to whom we would like to do all sorts of unmentionable things. Congratulations and shame on you! You are a bit of a slut. |
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bilbo99 Emu
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07-12-2007 08:49
furryphobe - people who are afraid of furries. gorophobe - people who are afraid of Goreans. and .. noobiphobe? _____________________
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Colette Meiji
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07-12-2007 08:55
and .. noobiphobe? I see noobs .. all the time! |
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Kesseret Steeplechase
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07-12-2007 09:01
Dongers - avatars that are female but IRL are male. Not meant to be derogatory at all, more descriptive than anything.
AO Syndrome - someone who suffers from the disease of having a very unnatural AO, one that is so unnatural it actually distracts you. That's all I can think of right now. I do use SL words outside of SL, only to my husband though as he does the same with me. We've always done that with whatever game we are playing at the moment, still use Battflefield and Sims phrases. |
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Cocoanut Koala
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07-12-2007 09:06
Aw, I wish my husband did. Nobody in my house understands "foof" for food.
coco _____________________
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Sling Trebuchet
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07-12-2007 09:12
TOSmaster (noun): person with superior arrogant attitude who constantly quotes the TOS and condones and argues for slimy practices as long as they are not in violation of Linden policies. I thought that was "TOSser" ? |
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Bubba Biberman
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07-12-2007 09:17
One of my favorites that I first heard in SL is "prolly" substituted in chat for probably.
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Colette Meiji
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07-12-2007 09:24
One of my favorites that I first heard in SL is "prolly" substituted in chat for probably. and mebe - for Maybe. dunno - for dont know. or IDK (I dont know) or even DK/DC (dont know/ dont care) then theres the Umbra in-joke WW |
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Magnus Marx
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07-12-2007 09:28
SLapper...
It's a saying we have in England for somebody who is somewhat promiscous - sleemed appropriate |
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bilbo99 Emu
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07-12-2007 09:35
.. so a SLapper is a SLirgin who's been very pixelated?
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Magnus Marx
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07-12-2007 09:56
LOL
Frequently de-pixelated more like! |
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Raymond Figtree
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A few more
07-12-2007 09:59
Threadbare (noun): person who reveals way too much personal information on public forums.
Rezzinating (verb): biding time while waiting for objects to appear around you. Animationoverrode (verb): Having your avatar unintentionally pierced or probed by a partner when a couples animation does not quite synch up. Hugsandmisses (verb): when you go to hug or kiss someone and you get mostly air Upgrate (noun): person who does not allow a few days for LL to work out the bugs after a new version is released. _____________________
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Tabitha Ascot
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07-12-2007 10:19
I've just got to add in one of my personal favorites...
Woodc*ck: Extreme noob with freebie geintals who hangs around sex clubs and propostions every female in sight. Coined from one time I was accosted by a gentleman with home-made plywood (in other words, untextured) prim-bits. |
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Marianne McCann
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07-12-2007 10:21
Dongers - avatars that are female but IRL are male. Not meant to be derogatory at all, more descriptive than anything. I've heard the term "lesbiman" for that. Both seem a little mean-spirited. furryphobe - people who are afraid of furries. gorophobe - people who are afraid of Goreans. Better add kiddyphobe (pedophobe? Naw, to charged) for those who worry about what attachments what kids might be attaching. _____________________
"There's nothing objectionable nor illegal in having a child-like avatar in itself and we must assume innocence until proof of the contrary." - Lewis PR Linden "If you find children offensive, you're gonna have trouble in this world " - Prospero Linden |